Kate Winslet lends her support to PeTA campaign | British Vogue (original) (raw)

Winslet's Feathered Friends

14 April 2010

MARCH 2010 - Last year's winner of the Best Actress Oscar, Kate Winslet (who won for The Reader), wore a Yves Saint Laurent dress and Tiffany jewellery to present the Best Actor award to Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart.PA Photos

VOGUE cover girl and Oscar winner Kate Winslet is lending her support to a campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) - appealing to some of Britain's top chefs to banish foie gras from their menus. "Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it," Winslet tells today's Daily Telegraph. The actress has narrated a video featuring footage Peta claims was filmed undercover on a foie gras farm - in which geese and ducks are shown to be in cramped and apparently filthy conditions. Urging consumers to boycott foie gras in restaurants, Winslet described the production of it as being a "terrifying and painful" experience for the ducks and geese.

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